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Council Minutes of 10/18/2005 John Knox Church. Two volunteer groups painted garages for needy citizens. Efforts aze being made to organize other such volunteer efforts. • The Senior Center garage sale raised $1,434, with the proceeds to go for programming for senior citizens. • Director John Dailey was named to the Polazis Career Center Advisory Council. The council works with many schools in our region to ensure all aspects of cazeer technical education aze being met. Personnel & Administrative Services/Human Resources • General liability insurance premium from this yeaz declined to $224,000, a 5% decrease from previous years. The general trend of the market plus the claims history of the city accounts for that decrease. Planning • Director Kim Wenger will be speaking to the Chamber Commerce on Thursday about economic development. She will talk about on-going city business cooperative issues and experiments. In the area of economic development, both he and the Planning Director met with the leadership of Moen and the Westfield shopping mall. The administration will continue the outreach to corporate citizens to make sure they know the city supports them and to seek their support for issues that aze occurring within the city. Safety Good news from the Police Dept. Our four-man team won the regional L.E.O.P.A.R.D. (Law Enforcement Officer Performance And Reaction Drill) challenge at Lorain County Community College. The team consists of Officers Periandri, Scullin, Bielozer and Goodwin, and they will soon compete in Las Vegas at the national competition. The officers have organized and trained on their own time and have done fund-raising to pay for their trip to Las Vegas. Congratulations to those officers. The recreation pool roof repair is ahead of schedule, and the pool should be open this coming Monday, ahead of schedule. On October 31, weather permitting, the two new HVAC systems will be installed via helicopters. For safety reasons, the Rec Center will be closed on that morning. Service • The Sandy Ridge concrete replacement program continues, with work complete on Sudbury, Bristol, Fairfax, Waterbury Circle and Darby Lane. Park Place is complete on the north side and the south side is scheduled to be placed this week along with the south side of Kingston. The north side of Kingston is already partially done. • The North Park estates concrete replacement program continues with Camellia, Nandina, Azalea being complete. The pavement on Gardenia is complete with the exception of the east cul-de-sac, and the aprons on the south will be poured next week after the concrete cures. Oring will begin this week. 2